The author discusses her story “Hidden Life.”

Short reviews of recent releases.

Ella Langley, a twenty-seven-year-old country singer from Hope Hull, Alabama, with bangs so terrifically thick and ponderous they evoke dense, pre-thunderstorm air, recently broke a major Billboard record: her single “Choosin’ Texas” is now the longest-running…

A tiny motor of pleasure had started to hum away inside her, but she was aware, too, of a flash of scorn. How easy it had been to arouse his admiration!

The Grammy-winning artist on coming out as nonbinary, writing requited love songs for the first time, and why their new album, “Hazel Eyes,” is their most personal yet.

At Cynthia, an emphasis on low-waste cooking yields a menu of thrilling abundance.

Donald Trump has never been noted for his vote-counting skills. In January, 2021, during his infamous call to Georgia’s secretary of state looking to find eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty more votes in the Presidential election he’d just lost, he…

The author Madhuri Vijay reads her short story from this week’s issue. Listen here.

“All my friends have their gods & their heavens / & their plans on how to get there.”

The big, dumb, gluttonous fun of America’s Semiquincentennial.

For the cover of the August 24 & 31, 2026, issue, the artist Diana Ejaita takes us where many of us would like to be at the height of summer: poolside. “I was looking for an image that conveys slower moments, the feeling of being at peace in a long-lived…

In the fall of 1995, three decades after the March on Washington, the sports bar and restaurant chain Hooters staged a march of its own. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (E.E.O.C.) had accused Hooters of illegal hiring practices, as part of…

What a nineteenth-century uproar reveals about our zeal for public shaming—and the truths that get trampled along the way.

The Yahoo Boys, by Carlos Barragán (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). In 2022, the author of this engrossing investigation travelled to Lagos, Nigeria, to find the person who, years earlier, ensnared his mother in an online romance scam. What he discovered was a…

Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.

The Gotham weed dispensary’s content director gets stoned at N.Y.C. landmarks for her video series, “Hi, I’m High.” On a trip to the Guggenheim, she critiques kooky sculptures and reflects on her trippy career path.

After seventy-eight years, New Jersey finally has a new lookout spot for blazes. With more frequent wildfires and record temperatures, it’s not a moment too soon.

“We were never a family of food snobs.”